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Synonyms and Antonyms of ascetic
- He committed to having an ascetic existence during his rehab.
- an ascetic diet of rice and beans
austere, authoritarian, flinty, hard, harsh, heavy-handed, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, tough
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
Synonym Discussion of ascetic
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- severe military discipline
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- stern arbiters of public morality
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- living an austere life in the country
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- the ascetic life of the monks
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